New York: May 12, 1813. Concerning an indenture between the Columbian Insurance Company of New York and Astor, John Grant and John G. Coster, Merchants relating to lands taken by the British during the War of 1812.Read More about Document, signed (“John Jacob Astor”

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. First edition.Inscribed by the Beale, who was ambassador to the US from Australia during the Kennedy administration, "for dear Jane [Engelhard] / with affectionate regards / from Howard Beale / Nov. 24 '77"Read More about This Inch of Time

[New York: 1870s]. A striking CDV portrait of Tennessee Claflin, who with her sister Victoria Woodhull, opened the first women-run stock brokerage, in 1870. Significant backing for the venture came from Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Claflin had become close to as his personal medium. Part of the fortune the sisters raised... Read More about CDV photograph

Madrid: Libería de San Martín, [1899]. First edition.On original pictorial cover is the inscription "Compliments of R.U. Barthe---, Malaga Dec. 11/1899." presumably to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge who owned this book. The author was Chief of Staff of the Spanish Fleet at the battle of Santiago de Cuba..... Read More about La Escuadra del Almirante Cervera por el Capitán de Navío